§22.4302 Definitions
For purposes of this Division, defined terms appear in italics. The following definitions apply in this Division:
Benefits means all remuneration other than wages, salary, bonuses, commissions, and stock options offered to an employee as part of the employee’s total compensation package, including bereavement leave, family leave, no-additional-cost services, health and medical benefits, employee discounts, memberships or membership discounts, moving expenses, pension and retirement benefits, transportation and travel benefits, and any other employment or fringe benefits.
Cash Equivalent means the amount of money paid to an employee with a domestic partner in lieu of providing benefits to the employee’s domestic partner. The cash equivalent is equal to the direct expense to the employer of providing benefits to an employee for his or her domestic partner or the direct expense to the employer of providing benefits for the dependents and family members of an employee with a domestic partner.
City means the City of San Diego, its organizational subdivisions, agencies, offices, commissions, or boards, but does not include independent agencies, such as the Housing Authority, the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency, and the Retirement Board.
Contract means any agreement between the City and another party for provision of goods, services, consultant services, grants from the City, leases of City property, or construction of public works.
Contractor means any person or persons, firm, partnership, corporation, joint venture, or any combination of these, that enters into a contract with the City. Contractor does not include subcontractors.
Domestic partners means any two adults in a relationship pursuant to the requirements for filing as domestic partners under California Family Code section 297 and who have registered as domestic partners with a governmental entity pursuant to state or local law authorizing such registration, or with an internal registry maintained by the employer of at least one of the domestic partners.
Equal benefits means equality of benefits between employees with spouses and employees with domestic partners, between spouses of employees and domestic partners of employees, and between dependents and family members of employees with spouses and dependents and family members of employees with domestic partners.
(Added 11-16-2010 by O-20002 N.S.; effective 12-16-2010.) (Amended 12-15-2011 by O-20116 N.S.; effective 1-14-2012.) (Amended 6-15-2026 by O-22109 N.S.; effective 7-15-2026.)
[Editors Note: Amendments as adopted by O-22109 N.S. will not apply within the Coastal Overlay Zone until the California Coastal Commission certifies it as a Local Coastal Program Amendment. Click the link to view the Strikeout Ordinance highlighting changes to prior language http://docs.sandiego.gov/municode_strikeout_ord/O-22109-SO.pdf ]
